Guard-rail.



M.R YAN. GUARD RAIL.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 26, 1912- 1 38,969, Patented Sept. 17, 1912.

WITNESSES MICHAEL RYAN, 0F SOMERVILLE, NEW JERSEY.

GUARD-RAIL.

- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 17, 1912.

Application filed February 26, 1912. 'Serial No. 680,021.

To all whom it may concern:

l 3e it known that I, MicrmnnRran, a citizen of the United States, residing at otherwise in'urin a train e ui ment and frequently in causing the feet of persons and animals to become caught betweei'i the planks and the rails.

The object of the present invention is to )rovide a simple, efficient and comparatively lnexpensive guard rail, adapted to dispense with inside planks, and capable of eliminat ing all danger incident to the use of the latter, and adapted also to be easily applied to a track and readily removed therefrom to permit the latter to be repaired or for any other purpose.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in the construction and novel combination of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawing and pointed out in the claim hereto appended; it being understood that various changes in the form, proportion, size and minor details of construction, within the scope of the claim, may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the inven' tion,

vation partly in section of a guard rail, constructed in accordance with this invention, a rail and a cross tie.

,Fi 2 is a similar view, showing a slightly diiierentforni of guard rail.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawing.

In the accompanyin g illustrated. the preferred embodimentof the invention, 1 designates a guard rail constructed of pressed steel and provided with a straight inner vertical side or wall 2. lit

in the drawing :'Figure 1 is an end ele "the tread of the rail,

drawing in which is it is dcsiredito board such space,

ting. fiat against the web 3 of the rail 4 from the bottom flange to the head thereof, and having a to it the bottom portion of the rail and an upper beveled edge or face 6 to conform to the configuration of and fitted against the underside of the head of the rail. The vertical side or wall 2 is secured tothe web of the rail by transverse bolts 7, arranged at suitable intervals and extending through registering openings 8 and 9 of the side or wall 2 and the web 3. The guard rail is designed to be constructed in sections of any preferred length, say from twelve to fifteen feet, and they are designed to be cut away at the rail joint so as to fit the fish plates thereof. The guard rail is also provided with a straight inclined outer wall 10, spaced from the rail 4t and extending upwardly from the cross tie 11 and formed integral with a foot flange 12, connected with the inclined side or wall 10 at the bottom thereof and provided with openings 13 to enable it to be secured to the cross ties by spikes 14 The foot flange 12-is designed to be spiked to each of the cross ties and be seated upon the same in spaced relation with the bottom of the rail. The inclined side or wall 10 extends upwardly to a point above the plane of the upper edge of the vertical side or wall 2, and it is connected with the same by an integral top consisting of a straight approximately horizontal portion 15 and a longitudinally grooved portion 16. The straight horizontal portion 15 extends inwardly from the top of the side or wall 10 in the direction of the rail, and the grooved portion 16 ext-ends downwardly from the horizontal port'on 15 and inwardly to the head of the rail, being connected sideor wall 2 at the upper edge. The horiztintal portion 15 is located slightly below head thereof, and the grooved portion 16, which extends below the head of the rail,

forms a flangeway for the passage ofthe flanges of the car wheels to prevent the;

smile from coming in contact with the guard rail. The groove 17 extends downwardly from the lower face of the head of the rail, and the flat head 15 and the-inclined wall 10 adapted to obviate the iecessity of pro viding an inner, plank tween. therails mayiilled in with broken stone, or any o'ther suitable material. When the guard lower beveled or rounded edge 5.

with the but in the plane of the p and the space be" rail will prevent the boards or planks from being forced upward by the action of the car wheels. When it is desired to repair the track or take up the guard rail for any other purpose, the spikesinay be extracted and the bolts removed.

When the guard rail is constructed of cast steel, it is preferably in the form shown in Fig. 2 of the drawing, the groove 18 being angular and the vertical side or Wall 19 being enlarged at its upper portion at 20 to form the inclined upper face or edge 21.

The enlargement is also provided with a vertical side face 22, constituting one of the side walls of the groove 18. The opposite side Wall 23 and the bottom 24 of the groove are also preferably straight ,instead of curved, as shown in Fig. l.

The ends or" the guard rail will in practice be curved outward from the rails in the usual manner so that there will be no liability of the flange ot' a Wheel striking against the end of the guard rail.

What is claimed is A guard rail of the class described comprising an inner vertical side or Wall adapted to fit ae'ain'st the 'Web of a rail and ex tending from the bottom flange of the same to the head thereof and having an inclined upper edge fitting against the underside of 3C the head of the rail and extending from the web to the side face of the head, an outer inclined side or wall provided at the bottom with a foot flange seated upon the cross tie in spaced relation with the rail and'adapted ea to be spiked to the same, an integral top having an approximately horizontal head portion at the top of and extending inwardly from the inclined outer side or Wall,

and a longitudinally grooved portion eX- 40 tending downwardly from the head portion and inwardly to the upper portion of the inner side or Wall the bottom of the groove being located below the plane of the inclined upper edge of the inner side or wall,

and bolts piercing the inner side or Wall for securing the same to the web of the rail,

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto affixed my signa- 

